"They should rename the magazine. Just call it slime," said the former Arkansas governor.

TIME named Trump its 2016 Person of the Year, but called him the "President of the Divided States of America."

Huckabee said TIME, Newsweek and other weekly magazines were "at least relatively objective," in the past, but are now "organs for hardcore left-wing editorial opinion."

TIME's cover comes in response to the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation, as well as on the heels of a report that Trump disclosed classified intelligence to Russian officials.